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White Roofs Are Green

Come July, California law will require new residential sloping roofs to be light-colored cool roofs. Georgia and Florida already offer incentives to home owners who install white or light-colored roofs. Why? White roofs are green. White roofs keep things cooler naturally, so they save on air conditioning costs and cut carbon emissions. Painting your roof [...]

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Coal Mine Rehab Creates Tropical Paradise in Germany

Here’s an interesting idea. Take an old coal field and rehab it inside a solar powered glasshouse the size of a city block and put freestanding buildings inside the outer shell of glass and solar cells.

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Home is White Cube With Grass Roof

This is not as it first appears; a house tucked into a grassy mound, with a grass stairway down into the house. It is actually a freestanding box shaped house, with a private grass stairway to a grass roof in the middle.

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This Dome Home Can Resist Category 5 Hurricanes

the exterior shape makes it able to withstand a hurricane force wind up to 175 mph without sustaining significant damage.

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Consider A New Measure of Carbon Footprint

It’s the new pig on the block. We have the carsoffthe road. We have the lightbulbsreplaced. Next we will look at apartment pools and see them as a similar measure of pigginess. Worse in some ways, as the solution is simple.

Apartment pools should be covered at night. It’s the climate-friendly thing to do.

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